St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-28
A FAREWELL TO DAVIS.
The Confederate Chieftain's Macon
Reception.
AN AGED MANS EMOTION.
A Sentimental Scene Which Involved
No Trace of Disloyal
Feeling.

Mexico, in his speech to the veterans
yesterday, said:
Confederate Veterans: There stands upon
the soil of Georgia the distinguished MissiS-
Sippian, who, within the life of the present
generation, was the so-called traitor, leader
of Il so-called lost cause We, Confederate
veterans, relies of the armies which fought
for that cause, are here 10 meet him, 10 move
before him, in the pride and pomp of no Ro-
man triumph, it is true, but bending our necks
10 no Roman yoke of subjugation.
BY Invitation of the state of Geor-
gia, speaking through her duly empow
cred officials, all have come. Behold
majestic truth revealing herself. State SOY
sreignty is not dead. Georgia is a sovereign
still, and calls upon her people TO glory with
her to-day. Her glory is in her history. Her
history Is the memory OF her dead and this
day is consecrated to her Confederate dead.
They were guilty of no treason to her. To
whom then could they be traitors? Where
shall we seek their higher sovereign? Shall
we find him i'll the Federal constitution!
Then. there was a sovereign smitten to earth
by traitor hands, trampled i'll the dust by
traitor feet, but the hands and the feet were
not theirs. Do we hold that the men who
fought against them were traitors? Not at
all. They too, were loyal TO their sovereign.
The constitution was but treaty between
high contracting sovereign parties, with
out one atom of sovereignty in
Itself, since with impunity, through long
years of painful agitation, was it broken by
the sovereign parties of the North. They en-
acted into crime the mere attempt Of federal
power to enforce Its DEGREES within their do
minionS, and because, after decades of en-
durance as patient as il was deluSive, the
sovereign parties of The South declined to ac-
cept their revolutionary Will in permanent
place of the constitution, the compact break
ing SovereignS of the North, with numbers
overwhelming and material unbounded
made aggressive war upon them to force
them TO accept it. The world has been told
that the people of the South made the war to
ngTnpfnarQ African slavery This * false
They did not create, institute, nor do they
now wish TO restore it, The principle for
which we fought-the only principle of gov
Crnment expressive enough to meet the re-
quirements of advancing civilization, made
of late by Gladstone's eloquence so ia
miliar TO European thought-was -Ameri-
can born. Red with the blood of con-
fedcrate heroes, moist with the tears of con-
federate widows and orphans eastward shall
il continue TO roll, carrying with it the blessed
light of the Christian civilization all round
the globe and so surely as it moves it shall
bring the day of triumph. Ia that triumphal
procession Abraham Lincoln shall not move
"a the rightful president, bur jefferson Davis.
The so-called traitor leader of so-called lost
cause. We. as confederates can echo from
our hearts the patriotic cry of Webster the
great Thanks be TO God that /, too am an
American citizen, but if the so-called new
South be base surrender of the old, a false
confession, meanly false, of shame in our
past, shame in our sires, shame in our dead,
which none but the Silliest fool can honestly
feel. then. with all of the power given to us
by the God of Truth, we cry, "Avaunt, false
South. Avaunt rotten trunk upon cursed
root, thy fruit must turn TO ashes.''
CONFEDERACY DAY.
CHICAGO, Oct. PA special to the
Morning News from Macon, Ca, says:
Yesterday was 'Confederacy" day in
Macon. 1t was the last gasp, but it was
a startling one. Everywhere through
out the city confederate flags were fly
ing. Everybody had from one to a
dozen badges on his breast indicative of
love for jeff Davis and for 1.-The Lost
Cause" but still the leading and the
thinking people here say that it means
no dislOyalty to the Union; that it is
only last farwell to the old man, who
must soon leave this world, and to the
cause these people fought for under him.
The especial feature of the celebration
was the so-called review of the confed-
crate veterans by their old president
Mr.. Davis. with his family and num-
Der of distinguished Georgians, was sit
ting OH the porch of Capt. Johnson's
house, which stands in vast grounds at
the summit of Mulberry hill, when the
procession wheeled into the front car
riage gate. intended to press close by
Mr.. Davis and out at the rear, but the
crowd soon had Swarmed over the fence
and filled the entire front lawn com
pletely full. Ever fellow was struggling
to push nearer to the porch and every
voice was straining to be heard above
every other voice, shouting "Hurrah for
jeff Davis" The arrangements for
reviewing the veterans were
BLOWN TO KINGDOM COME
What the crowd wanted was to see jeff
Davis himself, touch him, if possible,
and To worship at his feet The old vet
Grams broke ranks and began climbing
upon the porch. The police tried to
pull them down. but they shouted back
that all the policemen i'm Georgia could
not keep them from shaking the hand of
jeff Davis. MIR. Davis. whose seventy
six years have left him in a very feeble
state, made desperate efforts to shake
hands over the porch railing with every
body whom he could reach. OF the
5000 perhaps 200 managed to touch the
hands which Mr.. Davis now and then
tore away from those who sought
to hold them, and dangled over the
railing. Whenever he did this the
crowd below would grab his hands, and
some of the men who were strong
enough to key the others away stood
and held the thin, pale hands to their
lips and washed them with tears. Long
haired, unkempt old fellows crawled
right upon the shoulders of the men i'm
iip'ib vi tiiCbi pilCu OfSl utduS
regardless of everything but their one
purpose of touching the hand of jeff
Davis. They scrambled and fought and
yelled and cried till bedlam must have
seemed dense silence beside them.
YET even then the enthusiasm was not
al its height. 1t was not until some
body handed
THE RAGGED BATTLE FLAG
OF the Third Georgia regiment over the
heads of the crowd that the storm blew
Its worst. Mr.: Davis grasped the tatters
OF ct the flag and pressed them to his lips.
This was the signal for the most violent
breaking forth. The air was full of
such expressions as "God bless jeff
Davis" God bless the flag" and kin
dred sentiments. Men and women on
the porch broke down under the strain
put upon their emotions, and in mo-
ment the entire multitude was in tears.
The old confederate president waived
the flag torn in battle over the heads of
the people, who yelled and threw
their hats away and cried like so
many children. Mrs. Davis and her two
daughters kissed the flag in turn. and
for each kiss 5000 huzzas went ND. Mrs.
Davis at last tore off a shred of the flag
and placed it within the bosom of her
dress, Whereupon perfect pandemon-
lum of God bless YOU" and similar
shouts were let loose. When the flag
was handed back to the multitude the
men snatched all available tatters and
pressed them warmly to their lips.
Pretty soon
MIR. DAVIS ROSE,
and facing the people in the attitude of
a speechmaker. managed finally to
bring about lull, in which he was
heard by the very nearest ones to say:
Friends and Brothers: am like that old
flag. tatteTed and torn by storms and years.
love it for its own sake and for yours. j
love IL as monument of what your fathers
did and what they hoped you would do. /
VIII sec YOU Ggain.